Harvey Clarke Elementary School

Set in Forest Grove, Oregon, Harvey Clarke Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of Forest Grove SD 15. It enrolls 390 students across grades K through 4. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Harvey Clarke Elementary School sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in Forest Grove SD 15 (5,692 students total), Harvey Clarke Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Harvey Clarke Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 35% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Washington County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harvey Clarke Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Harvey Clarke Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Forest Grove Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harvey Clarke Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 67% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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